9:14 PM
I think that it is just horrible that a United Airlines customer service agent and his wife used the commotion for the Asiana plane crash to *steal luggage*! The surveillance cameras caught him going into the luggage area, steal luggage and hand them to his wife and some other woman:
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-airlines-worker-charged-20130729,0,7931110.story
China's new "visit your parents" law allows for parents to sue their children for not visiting them enough or not giving them enough money. It is against the law to not visit your parents often and everyone is required to tend to the spiritual needs of their parents:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-china-elderly-law-20130729,0,2012136,full.story
http://blog.aarp.org/2013/07/08/visit-your-parents-or-be-sued-is-that-un-american/
Another movie theme come to life--researcher have been able to incept false memories in mice:
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/07/mice-%E2%80%9Cincepted%E2%80%9D-false-memories
Researchers believe that they are close to developing a blood test that can diagnose Alzheimer's. The test was correct 93% of the time in trials on 202 people, a strong first showing:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/07/close-to-having-blood-test-for.html
Survey found that more than 2/3 of married men say that they make their family's investment decisions "by themselves", but only 13% of married women say that their husband is the family's primary decision make. 40% of married women say that they are the family's primary decision maker but just 5% of men say that their wives are the primary decision maker...the numbers sure don't add up!
http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-married-couple-finances-20130729,0,2224885.story
Apple is hiring a lot of former Nuance employees and execs as part of their plan to make their own speech recognition service for Siri instead of having to use Nuance:
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/rumor-mill-apple-building-siri-speech-tech-end-reliance-nuance/2013-07-29
Report on labor conditions at an Apple supplier has confirmed that Apple is about to release a low-cost plastic iPhone:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/low-cost-iphone-details-revealed-report-labor-conditions-apple-supplier/2013-07-29
It has long been suspected that Mexican-style candies and other products from Mexico containing chili peppers and salt were sources of lead contamination, and the FDA has had to recall and issue warnings about several imported food products due to their lead levels. Researchers studied the lead levels in hot sauces imported from Mexico (which have similar ingredients that Mexican-style candies have) and found elevated lead levels in hot sauces from 4 different manufacturers:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20130728-the-hidden-dangers-of-southoftheborder-hot-sauce
This 33-pound mushroom may be the world's largest mushroom:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10207107/Is-this-the-worlds-biggest-mushroom.html
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-airlines-worker-charged-20130729,0,7931110.story
China's new "visit your parents" law allows for parents to sue their children for not visiting them enough or not giving them enough money. It is against the law to not visit your parents often and everyone is required to tend to the spiritual needs of their parents:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-china-elderly-law-20130729,0,2012136,full.story
http://blog.aarp.org/2013/07/08/visit-your-parents-or-be-sued-is-that-un-american/
Another movie theme come to life--researcher have been able to incept false memories in mice:
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/07/mice-%E2%80%9Cincepted%E2%80%9D-false-memories
Researchers believe that they are close to developing a blood test that can diagnose Alzheimer's. The test was correct 93% of the time in trials on 202 people, a strong first showing:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/07/close-to-having-blood-test-for.html
Survey found that more than 2/3 of married men say that they make their family's investment decisions "by themselves", but only 13% of married women say that their husband is the family's primary decision make. 40% of married women say that they are the family's primary decision maker but just 5% of men say that their wives are the primary decision maker...the numbers sure don't add up!
http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-married-couple-finances-20130729,0,2224885.story
Apple is hiring a lot of former Nuance employees and execs as part of their plan to make their own speech recognition service for Siri instead of having to use Nuance:
http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/rumor-mill-apple-building-siri-speech-tech-end-reliance-nuance/2013-07-29
Report on labor conditions at an Apple supplier has confirmed that Apple is about to release a low-cost plastic iPhone:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/low-cost-iphone-details-revealed-report-labor-conditions-apple-supplier/2013-07-29
It has long been suspected that Mexican-style candies and other products from Mexico containing chili peppers and salt were sources of lead contamination, and the FDA has had to recall and issue warnings about several imported food products due to their lead levels. Researchers studied the lead levels in hot sauces imported from Mexico (which have similar ingredients that Mexican-style candies have) and found elevated lead levels in hot sauces from 4 different manufacturers:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20130728-the-hidden-dangers-of-southoftheborder-hot-sauce
This 33-pound mushroom may be the world's largest mushroom:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10207107/Is-this-the-worlds-biggest-mushroom.html